A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Turpan in China. Event id: us7000qbmw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qbmw. Global time and date of event 09/07/25 / 2025-07-09 18:39:50 / July 9, 2025 @ 6:39 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 88.1928 East, latitude 43.0084 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 18:39:50 / 6:39 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ürümqi, Laochenglu. Earthquake epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Ürümqi (c. 3 029 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Laochenglu (c. 254 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 80 km W of Turpan, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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